WATCH: Senate confirms Pompeo as secretary of state

WASHINGTON — The Senate has narrowly confirmed Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state.

The outgoing CIA director secured support from 57 senators, with 42 voting no and one senator absent. It’s one of the slimmest margins for the job in recent history. Every past nominee since at least the Carter administration has received 85 or more yes votes, with the exception of Trump’s first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. He got 56 yes votes.

Five of the seven Dems who voted to advance Mike Pompeo nomination have difficult re-election races this fall in states Trump won https://t.co/8qPHxJvFNj